How to format your references using the Annual Review of Immunology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Immunology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Segal E. 2010. Journal club. A computational biologist looks at how identical cells come to differ. Nature. 464(7287):329

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang W, Luck SJ. 2008. Discrete fixed-resolution representations in visual working memory. Nature. 453(7192):233–35

A journal article with 3 authors

Nielsen H, Westhof E, Johansen S. 2005. An mRNA is capped by a 2’, 5’ lariat catalyzed by a group I-like ribozyme. Science. 309(5740):1584–87

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Serreli V, Lee C-F, Kay ER, Leigh DA. 2007. A molecular information ratchet. Nature. 445(7127):523–27

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Chowdhury S. 2016. Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ardissono L, Kuflik T, eds. 2012. Advances in User Modeling: UMAP 2011 Workshops, Girona, Spain, July 11-15, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 7138. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. X, 416 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Klees SJ. 2012. World Bank and Education. In The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives, ed SJ Klees, J Samoff, NP Stromquist, pp. 49–65. Rotterdam: SensePublishers

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Annual Review of Immunology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Scientists Develop Water Tractor Beam. IFLScience

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 1992. National Aero-Space Plane: Restructuring Future Research and Development Efforts. NSIAD-93-71, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Grefe SE. 2013. Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Pilon M. 2013. Musburger Criticized for Remarks About Star’s Girlfriend During Title Game. New York Times, Jan. 9, p. B13

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Immunology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Immunol.
ISSN (print)	0732-0582
ISSN (online)	1545-3278
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy